Mulling an offer from them and a fast growing startup. While the cash offer for Nflx is great, I'd love to be able to move to management some day. Would that be possible?
Note that sometimes startups can be tough places to progress to, if it's a shit show run by founders who keep bringing their friends into management. Just a thought - you may find more structure and less nepotism in Netflix. Of course looking for validation by current employees.
What is the startup?
Career growth is your responsibility. If you want to move to management and you’re good at it, then 100% you can make that happen.
Thank you for sharing advice that applies to every single company out there but is not insightful at all to anything Netflix specific
Then I’m verifying that what is true here is true at other companies. Were you expecting some Netflix career path secret to be revealed? What insight were you expecting?
why are you so worried about it? you either make it happen, or you don’t and you switch jobs in a couple of years.
Netflix usually hires for the roles and no clear path to management.
I disagree with my colleague. Yes every now and then an IC moves to management but there is no clear process defined to do so. I at least know 3 people who have been here 5+ years, wants to be managers, have 15+ years of experience , and are already acting leads of their respective teams but they are not given the opportunity to move to management. The directors in their respective cases just wants to hire an outsider and the reason given to them is nothing but pure BS. most people at Netflix love their job and wouldn't want to risk losing it by pushing harder. There had been multiple discussions internally about how can we offer some form of career progression without introducing leveling. And depending on your personality you may not like what Netflix offers. There is no career progression, at least on paper. Hopefully you learn a lot on job and become a better engineer and deliver better products but on paper there won't be any career movements. If you are looking for some form of acknowledgement from the Management that you have moved to next level as engineer, this is the wrong place. On the other hand if by career progression you just mean becoming a better engineer by working on harder problems with awesome colleagues and improving your skills, Netflix will most likely provide those opportunities.
The process is develop yourself to a point where you can compete for open management level roles. Maybe your peers aren’t ready for management despite having a desire for it? ICs move to manager far more often than you think.
The thing is that as we expect engineers to be top level we can’t afford to have low level managers as well. When someone wants to move to management and dedicate and prepares for it, it can happen. I’m completely against just promoting team leads(ish) to management just because they want. The entire team would be impacted.
I agree with my colleague that there is no clear path set to advance your career. Netflix has a philosophy of hiring people to do a specific job. It is not interested in advancement of careers.
I personally know several managers and at least one director that started out as ICs at Netflix before transitioning to management. If you're interested in that path, it's definitely possible.
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Did you ask Netflix that question?
I did and they said yes but I'd love to hear an unfiltered opinion
Interesting, yeah I'm curious to hear if it's actually backed up by others.